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Ward Hayden and Greg Hall will be familliar to our Lizard Lounge regulars as a solid core of the band Ward Hayden and the Outliers. Their ongoing tradition of New Years Day tribute to Hank Williams sells out at the Lizard Lounge every year, and sold out two nights in May to celbrate the release of their latest effort “Little By Little” a tribute to Bruce Springsteen. They have won Boston Music Awards as country act of the year in 2023, 2021 and 2019. They tour extensively in Europe and Scandanavia and were a featured act at the Boston Calling music festival in 2024.
Since moving to Music City in his mid-twenties, ZG Smith racked up a formidable cache of musical successes including touring extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Europe, being frontman, primary songwriter, and founding member of Americana duo Smooth Hound Smith, and sharing stages with acts like The Chicks, Trombone Shorty, Collective Soul, and Devon Gilfillian. His poignant and ethereal debut EP, Nighttime Animal, was released in February of 2023 and has garnered airplay and attention from musical curators and press outlets alike, not the least of which include Minneapolis’s The Current, NPR’s World Cafe, Nashville’s Lightning 100, PopMatters, The Bluegrass Situation, NashvilleSCENE, UnderTheRadar, and more.
